Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is the place to be if you like to write and share Japanese poetry forms like haiku, choka and tanka. It’s a warmhearted family of haiku poets created by Chèvrefeuille, a Dutch haiku poet. Japanese poetry is the poetry of nature and it gives an impression of a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water. ++ ALL WORKS PUBLISHED ARE COPYRIGHTED AND THE RIGHTS BELONG TO THE AUTHORS ++ !!! Anonymous comments will be seen as SPAM !!!

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Carpe Diem Special #187 Georgia's 3rd, a haibun "idyllic spring"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's my pleasure to bring to you Georgia's 3rd CD-Special. We have already seen how gifted she is and she also writes wonderful haibun. A haibun, in which prose and poetry are entwined, is a short story that ends mostly with a haiku, sometimes there are also haiku embedded in the haibun as for example in our monthly theme "Narrow Road" that famous haibun by Basho (1644-1694).

For this CD-Special I have selected a haibun which Georgia (a.k.a. Bastet) wrote in December 2014. Have fun reading it and let the haibun inspire you.

IDYLLIC SPRING

Grassy
steps led to an over-grown garden. Looking down Janice wondered who had built
the walls and indeed, when those stony steps had last been used. The garden
full of wild flowers was weed-choked but the sun filtered down invitingly. She
began to descend, half-way down the stairs she stopped surprised.

Piercing
the silence, a blood-curdling howl. Robin red-breast rises, screeching, into
the sky.

She looked
down the remaining stairs and saw a large brindled cat stride out from the
undergrowth. Tail swishing she realized the hunter had lost his prey.

That was truly a superb concept in your haibun Georgia, and the way you wrote that concept was really very good, lush with nature, yet behind is the story and the philosophy. I liked that idea very much, and will try something similar, if I can, as I have not really focused on the workings of nature enough.

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Carpe Diem is the place to be if you like to write and share haiku (or another Japanese poetry form like e.g. tanka). It's a family of haiku loving poets.Japanese poetry is known as the impression of a short moment, say a heartbeat or an eye-blink, in which nature plays an important role.It's free to participate in Carpe Diem. By participating in Carpe Diem, you agree with the use of your work in the exclusive e-book series of Carpe Diem.Of course your work will be credited as Carpe Diem always does. However all the texts and works at Carpe Diem are copyrighted and the rights belong to the authors.

March 20th 2016

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